Pregnancy...a God's wish or just a biological phenomena?

Few days back US senate candidate from Indiana Richard Mourdock was is news for his comment about abortion. Many so called pro-life people (I don't know on what basis they call themselves pro-life) are against abortion and they debate heavily about when human life begins and how we can't reject a gift of God even if the person who is receiving it don't want to have that gift. It's really surprising but even in developed country like USA this debate is going on for decades and still people don't have some logical consensus on this issue.

The whole notion or hypothesis of human life is a gift from God sounds very unrealistic to me, we are also product of biological process of reproduction like any other animal or insect on this planet.

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People don't call earth worm's life as a gift from God, we don't call cancer, Malaria, small pox (which had name of some goddess in India) as gift from God and try to preserve it, we rather call them deadly diseases and fight against them, then whats so special about fertilization or conception? We interfere in many natural processes (what people call God's will or wish) like earth quakes, hurricanes, diseases, our original appearance (by doing plastic surgery, make up, growth hormones, etc.) but no one calls these acts as sin and condemns our efforts to fight them or stop them, rather the techniques or inventions who help us to fight against all these things are considered as boons for human race and we all feel lucky to have them. Rather if we look closely human history is full of incidents about our fight against natural calamities (one can call them God's wish), many battles we won and some of them we are still fighting.

This post is not pro or anti abortion, I personally think abortion is and should be the choice of women, after all she has to bear that child and she has right to decide what is good for her health and her life. When we bring topic of God and its will in to discussion of abortion and issues related with it clearly we are going off the track and blowing this issue out of its proportion. This so called pro-life activist do- n't like to support gun ban in US even after so many incidents which prove that it's a dangerous, because they consider it as a fundamental right given to them by constitution (nothing pro-life here) but when it comes about abortion they think we ( and most of them are males) should not interfere in God's will, there is no question here about fundamental rights of women about their health and body. They don't think it's pro-life to support fight against global warming, many of them don't even accept that human actions contribute towards global warming process. They even want to get rid of environment protection agency (EPA) which helps in protecting environment and people but still they call themselves 'pro-life' because they want to protect every fertilized women egg, no matter by what means it gets fertilized and whether that women wants it or not.

Natural beginning and end of human life (or for that matter any life) is purely biological or natural phenomena, there is nothing divine here, we are product or I must say byproduct of some act which humans do for their pleasure, this is a simple fact about origin of our life. For most animals sexual acts is a mere seasonal or biological phenomena for reproduction so that their species can survive, but not for humans and like many other things (like eating, clothes, shelter) we have glamorized this act also and there is nothing wrong in it. We are different from other animals in many ways because of our behavior and imagination and that includes our reproductive and sexual activity. Biologically it's the same, to fertilize the egg, sperm has to meet with the egg and this initiates the reproductive process, there is nothing divine in it, reproduction won't happen unless these two things come together (whether God's will or not doesn't matter). Today because of advanced technology same thing can be done in test tube and if we want we can create new life in lab (another proof that there is nothing divine in it, because even humans also can do it). At least in case of other animals their sexual desire and act is controlled by environment and mating seasons but we humans are immune to this, we ourselves control our sexual desires and acts. Rape, sexual abuse, extramarital affair, casual sex or for that matter any sexual act between male and female has a potential of creation of new life, it's not that only after certain rituals or permission (like marriage) this thing happens, so why are these people still pretending that there is something more (divine) in it? Whats the problem in accepting that it's a mere biological phenomena?

It's a woman who has to bear a child and face psychological and physical issues related with pregnancy and its aftermath, so she should get to choose when she wants to take that responsibility that's why it's her right to have options of contraception available and in case by mistake if something goes wrong then also it should be her decision to choose what she wants to do with her pregnancy. Teen pregnancy is a social issue and we need to educate kids about it but in general pregnancy is not a social phenomena where politicians and law makers should decide whether women should bear child or not, it's very much personal and persons (or I must say a person, in this case female) should have right to choose, I know it's not a easy decision for anyone to take but nature has given her that right and choice and we should not mess with that.